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My next journey was in the middle of June, and I came home with two days' 

 work (one of them being 14 hours) well laden, having filled over 300 boxes, includ- 

 ing 24 Etipithecia distinctata, a fine series of Coccyx vacciniccna, Phoxopteryx 

 siculana,biarcuana,uncana, Coleophora Wllkinsonella,gryphipennella, and virgaure- 

 ella, lillachista suhobscurella and suhochreella, Orac'daria hemidactylella and Coccyx 

 coniferana, Bucculatrix aurimaculella, Dicrorampha plumbana, a nice variety of 

 Emmelesia candidata, Aspilates strigillala and Nemoria viridata still out and fine 

 (two only, and I saw them at I'cst) ; and, strange to say, a fine aspidiscana out on 

 the open heath : I thought it was a small Pyratista by the flight, going along rapidly 

 with the wind. 



My last excursion was on Friday evening last (July 2nd) . I went forward to 

 Grange after a hard day's work in Manchester, and took, on my way to Witherslack, 

 seven fine signatana, some Argyresthia mendicella, one tephradactylus, a few osteo- 

 dactylus, &c. I was rather too late in the evening to get a chance at Argyrolepia 

 luridiana. The next morning was glorious : before breakfast I took Diplodoma 

 marginefunctella and Glyphipterym equitella, and some Butalis fuscoanella and 

 Argyrolepia Baumayiniana. After breakfast, I set out for Mlana expolita on Whit- 

 barrow, but got among some Elachista triseriatella ; I spent two or three hours creeping 

 on my hands and knees, and secured a fine series. Tlie setting is one of the most 

 tedious jobs, as they are sucli delicate little things. Wliilst employed in this fashion, 

 I came across Pt. parvidactylus (very fine), Elachista adscitella, Butalis fusco- 

 ctiprella, and one solitary female expolita came and settled beside me (an outsider). 

 I hastened on to the head quarters whilst the sun was up ; no sooner had I got on 

 the spot than down came the rain with very little warning ; I hurriedly filled my 

 net with thistle leaves to have a job whilst sheltering, and from them I got a score 

 of larvae of Depressaria carduella. A large Sphinx came among the Seduin on the 

 rocks, but I could not make it out, as it would not let me get near enough ; it looked 

 like liiieata. The rain now made me hurry away, and I got to the Inn (about three 

 miles off) just in time, as the rain set in so heavily, and it blew such a wind, that 

 all collecting was at end, and my best time (the evening) was done for. The next 

 day rain, lightning, thunder, and no amendment to the hour I write. During an 

 hour's lull, I got a bag-full of wild carrot, and found some larvae of Depressaria 

 capreolella feeding. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 15, Spring Bank, Preston : Sth July, 1872. 



Dicrorampha consortana and Retinia Buoliana at Preston. — I have been in the 

 habit of going 40 miles away to catch these insects. The former I took on the banks 

 of the Ribble close by here, and the latter when walking in our public park, not half- 

 a-mde away from my house. I got some shoots of Pinus austriaca and brought 

 them home, and see five fine moths out to-day. I have bred a fine series of D. 

 consortana from the shoots of the ox-eye daisy. — Id. 



Eidophasia Messingiella near Wolverton. — On the 29th of June, being the only 

 fine night we have had for some time, I went to a small swamp to hunt for Tinea-, 

 and, amongst other species, I captured 20 Eidophasia Messingiella, several of them, 

 however, were much worn. — W. Thompson, 163, Stantonbury, Wolverton, Bucks : 

 July 1st, 1872. 



